infringement
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 305 U.S. 124 - General Talking Pictures Corporation v. Western Electric Co · 1938Most cited · 192 citing opinions
Any use beyond the valid terms of a license is, of course, an infringement of a patent.
How often courts cite the cases defining “infringement”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “infringement” — 297 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1925–1938
- ORIGINAL
Infringement is a question of fact. The quoted finding is in the nature of special verdict of a jury.
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